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- 1971 - Aurigny Air Services commences operations
- 1966 - West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with eighteen fatal injuries and no survivors 5.5 miles (8.9 km) south of Wemme, Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.
- 1964 - Derby Airways changes its name to British Midland Airways
- 1950 - the Royal Danish Air Force is re-established
- 1947 - Los Angeles Airways begins the first scheduled carriage of airmail by helicopter
- 1947 - George Welch allegedly breaks the sound barrier during a dive in his XP-86 Sabre
- 1935 - The first company to bear the name British Airways is formed, by the merger of Hillman Airways, Spartan Air Lines and United Airways.
- 1931 - KLM begins a regular service between Amsterdam and Batavia by Fokker F.XII. At 13,744 km (8,540 miles) this is the longest regular air route in the world at the time.
- 1984 - the US Navy awards McDonnell Douglas a $US 438 million contract to develop the T-45 Goshawk
- 1981 - United States president Ronald Reagan re-starts the B-1 Lancer program by announcing the order of 100 B-1Bs for the USAF.
- 1980 - a Westland Sea King performs the rescue of 22 passengers from the Swedish ship Finneagle in the North Sea.
- 1948 - The Bukken Bruse disaster happens when a flying boat crashes upon landing in Trondheim. Bertrand Russell is among the survivors.
- 1941 - Heini Dittmar sets a new airspeed record of 1,004 km/h (624 mph) in a Messerschmitt Me 163A. The record is unofficial because the flight (and the Me 163 programme) is kept secret.
- 1910 - the first mid-air collision takes place near Milan. Both pilots survive, but one is badly injured.
- 1967 - William J. Knight sets a new airspeed record in a North American X-15, of Mach 6.72 (4,543 mph, 7,297 km/h). This is the fastest flight that the X-15 will make.
- 1946 – A Berlin-bound 4 engine Douglas C-54 named 'Flagship New England' crashed into a mountainside outside of Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador. The flight, operated by American Overseas Airlines was mostly carrying wives and children of US Army personnel serving in post-war Germany. All 39 people on board died. At the time, it was the worst accident of its kind among US civilian airlines.
- 1942 - the first A4 rocket, later dubbed the V-2 flies from Peenemünde, covering 190 km (119 miles) in 296 seconds at five times the speed of sound, reaching an altitude of 84.5 km (53 miles).
- 1931 - 3-5 - Hugh Herndon and Clyde Pangborn make the first non-stop flight across the Pacific Ocean, from Samushiro Beach, Japan, to Wenatchee, Washington in 41 hours in a Bellanca Skyrocket.
- 1803 - 3-4 - Frenchman André-Jaques Garnerin covered a distance of 395 km from Paris to Clausen with his Montgolfière.
- 2004 - SpaceShipOne successfully makes her 3rd flight into space and proves to be a plausible option for space tourism, thus winning the Ansari X-Prize
- 1984 - 61 year old Elaine Yadwin lands a Piper Cherokee Warrior II safely in Florida after her husband, the plane's pilot, dies during the flight.
- 1933 - 4-11 - Sir Charles Kingsford Smith sets a new solo flight record between England and Australia of 7 days 4 hours. He flies a Percival Gull.
- 1930 - British airship R.101 crashes in France while en route to India. Forty-seven people are killed.
- 1918 - French famous pilot Lt Roland Garros is shot down and killed in combat.
- 1914 - Sgt Joseph Frantz and Cpl Louis Quenault of Escadrille VB24 score the first air-to-air kill of the war, shooting down a German Aviatik B.II with machine gun fire from their Voisin III over Jonchery, Reims.
- 1908 - the Zeppelin-airship LZ IV destroyed by fire at Echterdingen.
- 1905 - Wilbur Wright makes a flight of 24.2 miles (38.9 km) in Flyer III (right). The flight lasts for almost 39:23 minutes at Huffman Prairie in Ohio.
- 2005 - A small plane carrying cargo for FedEx, including six vials of research viruses, crashed in downtown Winnipeg. The only woman on board, the pilot, was killed but there were no injuries on the ground.
- 1981 - NLM Cityhopper Flight 431 encounters a tornado, loses a wing, breaks up in air, and crashes near Moerdijk, Netherlands.
- 1973 - Egypt and Syria launch air strikes on Israel, starting the Yom Kippur War. The conflict lasts 18 days
- 1923 - Curtiss R2Cs win first and second place in the Pulitzer air race, the winning aircraft setting a new airspeed record of 243.6 mph (392 km/h).
- 1922 - Lt John Macready and Lt Oakely Kelley set a flight endurance record of 35 hours 18 minutes in a Fokker T-2.
- 1849 - Frenchman Francisque Arban flies over the Alps in a free balloon (Marseille-Subini near by Turin).
- 2001 - A twin engine Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy killing 118.
- 1998 - Oslo Airport, Gardermoen replaces Oslo Airport, Fornebu as Oslos main airport.
- 1996 - three B-2 Spirits destroy 16 targets with 16 smart bombs at the Nellis AFB range.
- 1940 - No. 71 Squadron RAF, "Eagle Squadron" is formed, comprising American volunteers.
- 1940 - Josef František, the Czech ace (17 victories) - the most efficient allied pilot of the Battle of Britain, died in an aircrash.
- 1939 - First RAF victory of World War II when a Lockheed Hudson shoots down a Dornier Do 18 over Jutland.
- 1919 - The US Army Air Service begins a trans-continental air race. By the time Lt Belvin Maynard wins it on October 31, seven airmen have died in the attempt.
- 1914 - Wing Cdr Charles Samson, RNAS plans the first strategic air raid on Germany. Two Sopwith Tabloids set out to attack the Zeppelin sheds at Düsseldorf. One of the aircraft attacks the Cologne railway station, but the other, piloted by Flt Lt Reggie Marix finds his target and destroys a shed holding the Z.IX.
- 1890 - Edward Rickenbacker, American fighter ace in World War I is born in Columbus, Ohio.
- 1906 - Zeppelin LZ 3 flies for the 1st time.
- 1890 - Clement Ader flew 50m in powered, uncontrolled flight in his aeroplane "Eole".
- 1972 - Competitive fly-off between the Northrop YA-9 and Fairchild YA-10 begins, continuing until December 9.
- 1955 - helicopters from USS Saipan play a key role in rescuing people stranded by flooding in Tampico, Mexico
- 1953 - an RAF English Electric Canberra wins the Christchurch Centenary air race, flying 11,792 miles (18,976 km) from England to New Zealand in 23 hours 50 minutes
- 1956 - a Vickers Valiant of No. 49 Squadron RAF drops Britain's first air-dropped atomic bomb, over Maralinga, South Australia
- 1928 - the Zeppelin LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin crosses the Atlantic in 71 hours.
- 1919 - Handley Page Transport begins offering the first in-flight meals, on its London-Brussels service. They are sold at 3s.
- 1988 - a Bar Harbor Airlines ATR-42 misses Air Force One by less than 1,000 feet
- 1924 - 12-15 - transportation of the Zeppelin-Airship "LZ 126" (USS Los Angeles (ZR-3)) to USA under guidance of H. Eckener.
- 1916 - Royal Naval Air Service ace Raymond Collishaw claims his first victory.
- 1907 - Augustus Gaudron crosses the North Sea in a hot air balloon named Mammouth. He flies 1,160 km (721 miles) from The Crystal Palace, London to Lake Vänern, Sweden.
- 1972 - a Uruguayan Air Force Fairchild FH-227 crashes in the Andes. Survivors resort to eating dead passengers before their rescue two months later.
- 1962 - a US Air Force Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance flight over Cuba reveals the presence of launchpads for Medium Range Ballistic Missiles, triggering the Cuban Missile Crisis
- 1947 - Chuck Yeager took the rocket-powered Bell X-1 past the speed of sound, the first controlled, supersonic, level flight.
- 1927 - 14-15 - Dieudonne Costes and Joseph le Brix make the first non-stop aerial crossing of the South Atlantic, flying a Breguet 19 from Saint-Louis, Senegal to Port Natal in Brazil, as a part of their round-the-world 57,000 km trip .
- 1918 - Baron Willy Coppens, highest scoring Belgian ace, is heavily wounded, ending his combat career. He had scored 37 victories, 34 of which were observation balloons.
- 1908 - Henry Farman makes the first cross-country flight in a power-driven aeroplane, from Bouy to Reims (27 km) in 20 minutes.
- 1905 - the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) is founded in Paris
- 1897 - Clément Ader makes a 300m flight in his steam-powered uncontrolled Avion III also referred to as Aquilon or the Éole III. The Army is not impressed and withdraws funding.
- 2003 - Yang Liwei becomes the People's Republic of China's first man in space.
- 1933 - the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine is started for the first time.
- 1932 - Tata Sons opens an airmail route between Karachi and Madras, the first regular air service within India.
- 1925 - a de Havilland DH.53 Humming Bird is successfully launched from the British airship R.33
- 1923 – First British motor glider competition is flown, at Lympne, Kent.
- 1921 - the Spanish airline Compania Española de Trafico Aereo is established - it will eventually form part of Iberia Airlines.
- 1783, Pilâtre de Rozier and Marquis d'Arlandes rise into the air in a Montgolfière tethered to the ground in Paris. de Rozier becomes the first human passenger in a hot-air balloon, rising 26 m (84 ft).
- 1992 - Flt Lt Nicky Smith, graduated from 89 Course at Shawbury to become the RAF's first female helicopter pilot
- 1939 - the Luftwaffe attacks its first British targets - Royal Navy warships in the Firth of Forth.
- 1912 - First Air-dropped bomb was designed during the Balkan War and used by the Bulgarian air force pilots Radul Milkov and Prodan Toprakchiev at the Turkish railway station of Karaagac (near Edirne). This was the first use of airplane (Albatros F.II) as bomber.
- 1908 - Samuel Cody makes the first generally recognised aeroplane flight in the UK in his British Army Aeroplane No. 1.
- 1977- The US ban of the Concorde was lifted when the Supreme Court of the United States declined to overturn a lower court's ruling rejecting the Port Authority's efforts to continue the ban.
- 1977- German Autumn: Four days after it was hijacked, Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu, Somalia, where a team of German GSG 9 commandos later rescues all remaining hostages on board.
- 1977 - Lt Virgil Griffin makes the first take-off from a US aircraft carrier in a Vought VE-7 from USS Langley
- 2002 - Boeing reveals its Bird of Prey stealth technology demonstrator, which has conducted a number of flights during the period 1996 to 1999.
- 1983 - Pan Am and American Airlines announce they will trade aircraft; Pan Am will send 15 McDonnell Douglas DC-10s to American in exchange for 8 Boeing 747s. It is the first time in history two airlines agree to a swap.
- 1925 - Sadi Lecointe wins the Beumont Cup, with a speed of 194 mph (312 km/h).
- 1908 - Wilbur Wright climbs to 115 metres above Auvours.
- 1970 - Hindustan Aeronautics completes its first licence-built MiG-21
- 1911 - Eugene Ely dies in an aircrash.
- 1901 - Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his dirigible Number 6 around the Eiffel Tower to collect a FF100,000 prize.
- 1980 - first dog fights of the Iran-Iraq War. An Iraqi Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 is shot down by Iranian F-4 Phantoms
- 1969 - Finnair introduces an inertial navigation system on its aircraft, becoming the first airline to dispense with the need for a navigator aboard.
- 1953 - a TWA Lockheed Constellation makes the first non-stop, scheduled passenger flight across the United States
- 1950 - US paratroops are used to cut off supplies from Pyongyang
- 1934 - MacRobertson Air Race flown from England to Melbourne, Australia to celebrate the centenary of the state of Victoria. The £75,000 prize money is won by Charles Scott and Tom Black flying de Havilland DH.88 Comet Grosvenor House.
- 1922 - Lt Harold Harris makes the first parachute escape from a stricken aircraft, bailing out of a Loening PW-2 over Dayton, Ohio.
- 1986 - British Airways is offered for public sale by the British government
- 1926 - British airship R.33 makes further parasite fighter tests, releasing two Gloster Grebes from 2,500 ft (762 m).
- 1912 - Australian Flying Corps formed.
- 1911 - First aircraft to be used in war, an Italian Army Blériot XI, flies from Tripoli to Azizia to spy on Turkish positions.
- 1797, André-Jacques Garnerin jumps from a balloon from 3,200 feet over Monceau Park in Paris in a 23-foot-diameter parachute made of white canvas with a basket attached. He was declared "official French aeronaut of the state".
- 1987 - the last F-104 Starfighter is phased out of Luftwaffe service
- 1934 - Francesco Agello sets a new airspeed record in the Macchi MC.72, of 709 km/h (440 mph).
- 1906 - Alberto Santos-Dumont wins the Archdeacon prize as he flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France a distance of 60m (197ft).
- 1962 - aircraft carriers USS Enterprise, USS Independence, USS Essex, and USS Randolph take part in blockading Cuba.
- 1947 - United Airlines Flight 608 DC-6 (NC37510) en route to Chicago from Los Angeles caught fire and then crashed while attempting an emergency landing at the Bryce Canyon, Utah airport.
- 1919 - Frank Piasecki is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Piasecki becomes the second man in the United States to fly a helicopter in 1943. Piasecki's company develops many of the world's most successful tandem rotor helicopters including the H-21 Shawnee, CH-46 Sea Knight and CH-47 Chinook.
- 1911 - Orville Wright soars in a glider 9 minutes and 45 seconds over dunes near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
- 1951 - Japan Airlines flies its first flights, using three Northwest Airlines Martin 2-0-2 aircraft, flown by Northwest crews. [1]
- 1944 - the first kamikaze mission is carried out, with aircraft of the 201st Kokutai sinking the carrier USS St Lo.
- 1930 - TWA (originally "Transcontinental and Western Air") begins the first regular passenger flights between New York and Los Angeles.
- 1983 - Pan Am celebrates the 25th anniversary of their first Boeing 707 with a 707 flight from JFK International Airport to Paris.
- 1977 - 26-31 - a Pan Am Boeing 747SP circumnavigates the world over the two poles
- 1972 - Igor Sikorsky dies
- 1962 - the last B-52 off the production line is delivered to the US Air Force
- 1925 - Schneider Trophy race flown at Baltimore, USA. Won by Jimmy Doolittle (USA) in a Curtiss R3C at 374.2 km/h (232.6 mph).
- 1922 - the first landing is made on USS Langley by Lt Cdr Geoffrey DeChevalier in a Aeromarine 39
- 1962 - a USAF U-2 is shot down over Cuba
- 1982 - The last Air France Boeing 707 service, from Tunis to Paris.
- 1916 - German ace Oswald Boelcke is killed in a mid-air collision.
- 2005 - Ghana International Airlines launched with inaugural flight from Accra to London.
- 1901 - the Royal Aero Club of Great Britain is established.
- 1979 - Sir Barnes Wallis dies, aged 82.
- 1978 - the Indian government approves the purchase of the SEPECAT Jaguar for the Indian Air Force
- 1909 - John Moore-Brabazon in a Short Brothers aircraft flies the first circular mile in the UK and wins £1,000 from the Daily Mail newspaper.
- 1990 - the Australian airline industry is deregulated. Airlines are allowed to select their own routes and set their own fares.
- 1987 - British Airways accepts the airline's first women pilots.
- 1972 - Two pilots are killed in the crash of a Dassault Falcon 10 prototype.
- 1959 - Colonel G. Mosolov sets a new airspeed record of 2,387 km/h (1,483 mph) in the Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-66
- 1956 - a US Navy R4D Skytrain is the first aircraft to land at the South Pole
- 1933 - Air France is founded.
